Symposia October 4–5 “Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World” · This symposium was the culminating event in Middlebury College’s three-year Crossing Borders initiative, generously supported by The Ford Foundation.Topics included primordialism, ethnicity, racism, ethnic conflict, territorialization, sovereignty, and homeland making. The conference brought to Middlebury a dozen of the world’s foremost scholars of nationalism to celebrate the accomplishments of Distinguished Visiting Professor and Scholar-in-Residence in Political Science Walker Connor, himself a member of that same group.
From left to right: Donald Horowitz (Duke University), Robert Kaiser (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Provost Ronald Liebowitz, Allison Stanger, William Safran (University of Colorado), William Douglas (University of Nevada),Walker Connor, John Stone (Boston University), John Edwards (St. Francis Xavier University), John Coakley (University College Dublin), Erik Bleich, and Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania)
“The national bond is subconscious and emotional rather than conscious and rational in its inspiration.” —Walker Connor
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OCTOBER 31–NOVEMBER 1 South Asian Club Symposium on the Arts “Dubbing Culture: Reinventing India in Film, Literature, and Music” (a student-organized event) · Keynote address: “Transliterating Traditions” by Arshia Sattar, filmmaker and critic; maker of the documentary Kings, Lovers and Thieves NOVEMBER 7–9 Islamic Society Symposium “Shattering the Myth: Islam, the Media, and Orientalist Stereotypes in the American Consciousness” (a student-organized event) · Keynote address and screening: “A Veiled Revolution: The Myth of the Muslim Woman” by Elizabeth Fernea, filmmaker, author of In Search of Islamic Feminism NOVEMBER 16–17 “Post-Communist Agrarian Reform in Eurasia: The Road Ahead” · Over the past 10 years, agriculture in the former Soviet bloc has not responded well to privatization and the introduction of market-driven forces; output and productivity have fallen almost everywhere. This symposium identified institutions that support the development of agricultural markets. It drew a wide range of academic and government experts from both the U.S. and overseas to discuss the critical components of agricultural progress: land ownership, financing, technical assistance, and the
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